Big books of the Old Testament like the Psalms, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel create a kind of weird mental impediment for me when I’m reading through. It’s not a content impediment; it’s a size of the book impediment.
There are 1334 pages in the Old Testament of my bible. If the books of the OT were divided up equally there would be about 34 pages in each book, which seems like a manageable number to me. But most of the books aren’t close to that average. The book of the Psalms is a hundred pages over it. I’ll be reading Psalms for more than seven weeks straight.
I know the longest books take the longest time because they’re long. But sometimes it seems that the longest books have a magical quality that allows them to transcend time and keep on going without end. And that throws up a barrier in my mind.
So it’s something to keep in mind as I think about reading through. Maybe a combination reading plan that lets me read a bit here and a bit there, that gives me a a break, that changes things up to help get me through is better than getting derailed and wrecked. I’ve got a couple of weeks to decide.
Skip to content
…reads the bible this year